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JOHN FERRAOIOLI, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No; 678,235, dated July 9,'1901.

` Applicationlednemter13,1900. Seriana. 39,643. (Normaal) To @ZZ whom itmay cem/tern: l

Be it known that I, JOHN FERRACIOLI, a citizen of the United States, anda resident of the city of New York, borough of Manhattan,

in the county and State of New York, have invented a new and ImprovedBroiler, of'

of one form of the invention, while the claims are definitions of theactual scope thereof.

Reference is to be had to/the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar characters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in both views.

Figure lis a perspective View of the invention, and Fig. 2 is asectional view of the same.

The apparatus has a suitable casing a., in the bottom of which arearranged two oppositely-located tracks or slideways ct', which arecontinued outward in front of the body to form eXtension-slideways d2,as shown in Fig. 2. The front wall of the casing is formed with a largeopening a3 therein, and in the lower part of the casing are situated twobroiler-irons, (designated b and c, respectively.) A burner-case b' isarranged to carry the broiler-iron b, and a burner-case c is arranged tocarry the broiler-iron c. These cases b and c are adapted to contain anysuitable heating apparatus. .In the drawings Y I have shown gas-burnersg and h supplied with gas through flexible tubes g and h; but obviouslyany other heating means could be employed, so that the broiler-irons hand c will be properly heated and the food placed between themthoroughly cooked. The case b has its top wall or broiler-iron b hingedto the case, so that by raising the iron b the burner mechanism may beplaced in position and the gas lighted when desired. The front wall ofthe case c has an opening commanded by a lid c4, (see Fig. 1,) whichfacilitates lighting the burner g. VBoth of the cases c and b areperforated, as indicated at c5 and b5, so

that air to support combustion may enter the' cases. The burner-case h',with its iron b, is provided with wheels b2, which run on the tracks ota2. provided for drawing the case h in and out, as indicated by thedotted lines in Fig. 2 and by full lines in Fig. l. The Wheels b2,running on the tracks Ct and a2, enable the case to'be moved back andforth to permit the food to be placed on and taken from the broiler-ironb. The burner-case c has its front wall projected up, as indicated atc2, this projection forming not only a closure for the opening a3, butalso a means of guiding the movement of the burner-case c, whichmovement is vertical within the casing ot, as the dotted lines indicate.The casing a is formed at its sides directly adjacent to its front Wallwith tracks at, which are engaged by wheels c3, carried on the extensionc2 of the burner c. By these arrangements the burnercase c', with its'attached broiler-iron, may be raised and lowered, so as to engage theiron e with and disengage it from the iron b, as desired. This movementof the casing c is brought about by the movement of the case b'. This iseffected by levers d, which are two in number, fulcrumed,respectively,at the inner side walls of the casing a and having slottedlower ends, as shown by dotted lines in Fig. 2, such slotted ends beingengaged by pins Zcarried on the burn er-case b. The upper ends of thelevers d are respectively connected with cords d', which pass oversheaves a5, mounted in the casing a, and thence downwardlto a connectionwith the upper end of the extension c2 of the burner-case c. W'hen thecase b is drawn forwardly, the levers d are thrown on their fulcrums,and through the medium of the cords d the case c is raised. This casereturns to its lowered position by force of gravity when the case h ispushed back into active position. For the purpose of assisting inraising the case c the levers d may be connected by cords e with aweight-bar @,which extends transversely across the case at the rearthereof, (see'Fig. 2,) the cords e passing over sheaves a, carried inthe casing a. The casing is provided with an opening a7 in its top topermit the escape of gases from the casing, and, if desired, a clock fmay be mounted on the top of the casing to enable the user A suitablehandle h3 may beA IOO to conveniently observe the length of timethat'the food is allowed to cook.

Various changes in the form and details of my invention may be resortedto Without departing from the spirit thereof, the principle lying in thetwo broiler-irons respectively carried by the cases which are to holdthe heating apparatus, and one of such cases being movable toward andfrom the other to permit holding the food firmly and properly cooking itand the other iron being movable in a horizontal piane backward andforward to permit placing the food thereon.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent- `1. A broiler, having` two broiler irons,burner-cases respectively carrying the same, a casing in which theburner-cases are mounted, the lower burner-case being arranged to ironbeing mounted to slide in a plane trans- 3o verse to the line ofmovement of the firstnamed iron.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specication in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOHN FERRACIOLI.

VVit-uesses:

I. B. OWENS, JN0. M. RITTER.

